Missed chances

It took seven years for Andrew Barlow to be reunited with his birth family, with help from Long Lost Family

- HANNAH DAVIES

LONG LOST FAMILY Monday, 9pm, ITV Factual

Andrew Barlow had a happy childhood and grew up knowing he was adopted. But in 2014 he received a letter out of the blue from the Long Lost Family team saying that his birth mother, Patricia, was searching for him.

Patricia was just 15 when she gave birth to Andrew and had always lived with the trauma of losing him. However, Andrew, 52, didn’t reply to the letter.